How to Fix the Svchost.exe High CPU Usage and Memory leak issues

January 17, 2018

Scvhost.exe, all over your windows computer? And you do not know why? Well, you may not be knowing but there are dozens of processes running in the task manager, and you cannot get rid of them or just disable them to avoid filling up your CPU?s resource memory.

Many of us do not even know what the Svchost.exe process is exactly?

Well let me tell you that this is a host process for the services which are running from the dynamic ? link libraries, as well as the Microsoft, has shifted all the primary functions of the windows service into the DLL files that are (Dynamic link libraries). So this becomes a critical process for us, and one should not just simply think of disabling it.

If you go to your task manager you will find many svchost.exe already running on your computer, why is it so?

The answer to this is that windows have many services running already and a good amount of those services are required when one has to boost the Windows OS, and if in case there was only one svchost.exe then we might encounter failures in the window system.

So each service group is managed by each svchost.exe, that is why you can see N number of svchost.exe in your task manager, they are to bring smooth functioning in the windows system. Although we are well aware of the fact that it eats up a lot of space in the CPU resource or RAM, there are no applications that can replace this. However this might not ultimately occur because of the scvhost.exe, there are chances that your PC has virus or malware running in them already, the cause of which you are facing this problem, you can get rid of this issue by just following the below-mentioned methods.

Click here to learn What is Rundll32.exe. 1) Scan ? If you incur this problem, then probably you have the virus on your computer, so we suggest for you to scan your device as there are the time that malware disguises them into such process and so to be on a safer side, we recommend you to pre-install your laptop with Anti- virus. So before you assume svchost.exe to be a problem and try to treat it, you scan your whole PC first to detect if there are any malware.

Click here to learn What is Adobe updater.exe. 2) Disable few services ? as already mentioned above many services require svchost.exe for smooth running, if you want to empty some space in your CPU resource and RAM then disable some unnecessary services, which you do not require any longer. Following are the steps to be followed if you want to disable the services 1) Press control +alternative +delete and select the start task manager. 2) Then select the? process? tab and then right click for choosing services. 3) A list of services will appear that are hosted by the svchost.exe process. 4) Choose the services button to get access to the windows services. 5) Locate the services which are using the svchost.exe, right click it and then restart the PC to reboot the service.

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1) Press control +alternative +delete and select the task manager. 2) Then select the ?Detail? tab and then right click for choosing services. 3) A list of services will appear that are hosted by the svchost.exe process, choose the service which consumes a lot of space and is not important for you, so that you can delete it. 4) It will automatically highlight the service from the list of services and then you have to restart to reboot the service. After the rebooting, if your process is still using a lot of your PC?s CPU space, you should stop it and so you have to the right click on it and select the option stop. You can also disable one service, just right-click the service and select the option ?open services.? And then right click on the service and then select the Disable from the start type list and then click on the applied button and the OK button.

3) Clear the event viewer log– at times if you try to clear this log there are chances you may even end up solving the problem of the svchost.exe process and following are the steps to do so. 1) Press the windows plus R and you will see a dialog box on the screen. 2) Fill in the event we and press enter in. 3) Then in the event viewer window, you will find sub items in the windows logs section. 4) Then right click and clear everything. 5) One even has to clean the security, setup and the system log by performing the same task. 6) And lastly, reboot your computer.

Is svchost.exe is a virus?

Well many things that it is a virus, as there are chances that few malware and viruses might disguise themselves under the same process name, but if the file is in the systems 32 folder, then there is nothing to worry about, as it is purely a windows file. But if the file is not in the same folder as mentioned above then there are chances that it can be malware, so it is better advised that one scans the computer as soon as they spot it. You should also read my article runtime broker fix.

Conclusion

The svchost.exe is a crucial process as it completely handles your dll file and you cannot completely disable it. However you can reduce some space on your CPU?S resource and RAM by deleting the unwanted services, this will reduce the space consumed by the process. One has to make sure they have a pre-installed antivirus in their laptop or PC so that your device is completely safe. If you still face any issue or have doubts about it, then you can comment below, and we will help to resolve all your problems regarding this issue. But I Hope the information mentioned above will assist you in reducing your storage space issue.